{"id":219260,"date":"2014-02-26T15:09:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T19:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123401640"},"modified":"2014-02-26T15:09:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T19:09:27","slug":"peterson-afb-hosts-first-ever-usa-vs-canada-base-hockey-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=219260","title":{"rendered":"Peterson AFB hosts first-ever USA vs. Canada base hockey match"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123401640\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/2014\/02\/140221-F-CC577-202.JPG\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Team USA battled Team Canada in a best-of-three ball hockey tournament at Peterson&#8217;s outdoor hockey rink Feb. 21. <\/p>\n<p>As at the Olympics, Team Canada proved a tough opponent, bringing home the gold and complementing their Sochi counterparts, who also won the gold medal in this year&#8217;s winter Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the three matches consisted of two 20-minute periods totaling 120 minutes of nail-biting action for the tournament. <\/p>\n<p>The wind howled as the ball dropped starting the first match of the day, featuring the junior enlisted personnel; Team Canada jumped out to a commanding 4-0 lead in the first half. Although Team USA fought hard, the Canadians proved to be a formidable opponent and cleaned up nicely, shutting out the U.S. team 6-0.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123401640\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}